Mixed Bill 2027: SAY, Holly Blakey and Ben Wright
London Contemporary Dance School
About Mixed Bill 2027: SAY, Holly Blakey and Ben Wright
Mixed Bill is an evening of repertoire works, showcasing the extraordinary talents of our final year BA (Hons) Contemporary Dance students from London Contemporary Dance School, as well as the legacy of the institution's long-standing history of pioneering contemporary dance choreographic practice.
There will be a restaging of two commissioned pieces from the previous Graduation Show by SAY and Holly Blakey, and a repertoire from Ben Wright. Each present a new rendition of their original choreographies.
About the artists
About SAY
SAY was founded by Sarah Golding and Yukiko Masui in 2019 and soon became associate artists at Dance East. In 2020, they were selected by The Place to be part of the Choreodrome residency to develop the concept for their show titled the album which since toured nationally and internationally. Alongside this, they were commissioned to create a family version of the show that is in its 3rd year of touring to schools and festivals (the album: skool edition).
As a duo they worked at the National Theatre as movement directors for THE EFFECT (Jamie Lloyd) which transferred to The Shed (New York) and also did the movement direction for the Jamie Lloyd Company production Romeo & Juliet featuring Tom Holland (Duke of York Theatre).
They also work extensively in the dance and musical theatre industry as individual artists Sarah on STOMP, KENREX, Balletboyz, Luail and Phoenix Dance Theatre. Yuki for Jose Agudo, James Cousins and Vuyani Dance Theatre and has also recently choreographed her touring show RON!N.
About Holly Blakey
Holly Blakey is among the foremost choreographers of her generation and one of the few female choreographers in the UK creating large-scale work. Her practice attends to the honest entanglements of embodied vulnerability, grief, and joy, always rooted in an intersectional feminist frame. As a director and choreographer, she has collaborated with artists including Rosalía, Harry Styles, and Florence + The Machine, and with fashion houses such as Vivienne Westwood, Burberry and Dior, interweaving live and commercial contexts, much of her practice often plays on the relationship between these distinct but not wholly separable worlds.
About Ben Wright
Ben is a choreographer, educator and a movement and intimacy director working across dance, theatre, opera and film.
He trained at Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance and worked as a performer between 1991-2006. He was Artistic Co-director of Candoco Dance Company 2017-2020 and Associate Artistic Director/ Choreographer for Skånes Dansteater 2014-2017.
Recent movement engagements include Franz & Marie (Charing Cross Theatre), Atonement (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Line of Beauty (Almeida), Chariots of Fire (Sheffield Theatres), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Opera North), Orlando (Garrick, West End), The Lost Thing (ROH/Candoco), A space in the Dark (Holstebro DanseKompagni) and the feature film of his groundbreaking work The Feeling of Going for Skånes Dansteater and Malmo Opera.
Ben also worked as an intimacy director for My Policeman (Amazon Studios) Funny Woman (Sky Atlantic), The Line of Beauty (Almeida) and My Master Builder (Wyndham’s).